The English edition of Nova et Vetera is published quarterly and provides an international forum for theological and philosophical studies from a Thomistic perspective. The journal strives to follow the culturally engaged, ecclesial, broadly Thomistic, and dialogical perspective of the founder of the Swiss Nova et Vetera, Charles Journet. Journet worked at the intersection of theology, philosophy, and biblical studies, and we seek to do the same.

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Nova et Vetera, Winter 2014 (Vol. 12, No. 1)

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
Enlightenment: Reflections on Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter Lumen Fidei – Reinhard Hutter
Faith Enlightens the Mind: Pope Francis’s Lumen Fidei and Contemporary Errors on the Nature of Divine Faith – Irene Alexander
Three Pathways into the Theological Mind of Pope Francis – Keith Lemna & David H. Delaney
The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: An Abandonment of the Cross? A Theology of the Papal Ministry in the Light of the Theology of the Cross – Emeka Nwosuh, O.P.

Articles
Eucharistic Ecclesiologies of Locality and Universality in John Zizioulas and Joseph Ratzinger – Richard Declue
The Jewishness of the Apostles and Its Implications for the Apostolic Church – Jean-Miguel Garrigues, O.P.
Contraception outside Marriage: Prudence or Sin? – Donald Haggerty
A Catholic Perspective on the Mission of Israel – Roch Kereszty, O.Cist.
Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, O.P., and the Renewal of Sapiential Thomistic Theology – Paul Morrissey
The Church as the Defender of Conscience in Our Age – Kevin O’Reilly, O.P.
Creation and Covenant in Contemporary Theology: A Synthesis of the Principal Interpretative Keys – Santiago Sanz
The Importance of Rapture in the Thought of Aquinas – Michael M. Waddell

On Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’S Theology
Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s Christology of Jesus’ Prayer and Two Contemporary Theological Questions – David G. Bonagura, Jr.
Joseph Ratzinger on Biblical Inerrancy – Aaron Pidel, S.J.
Reality and Sign: Thomas Aquinas and the Christological Exegesis of Pope Benedict XVI – R. Jared Staudt

Book Reviews
Thomas Aquinas: Teacher and Scholar. The Aquinas Lectures at Maynooth, volume 2: 2002–2010. Edited by James McEvoy, Michael W. Dunne, and Julia Hynes – Matthew Archer
Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy, by Adrian Pabst – Anne M. Carpenter